35 Disney Info You May Not Know

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1. There’s a actual Disney Vault — it is in Glendale, California. It is a constructing that homes the whole lot from the movies themselves to the sketches and fashions used to make them, in addition to many different issues from the corporate’s 100-plus 12 months historical past.2. Mickey and Minnie Mouse share the very same birthday — Nov. 18, 1928 — as they each appeared in Steamboat Willie collectively:3. However, Steamboat Willie is NOT technically the primary cartoon Mickey and Minnie appeared in. It was really Aircraft Loopy.4. Previous to 1988, Minnie Mouse solely starred in a single cartoon by herself: 1942’s Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Hearth, which was a WWII coaching video about rationing.5. The primary sound cartoon in coloration is 1930’s Fiddlesticks — although it is not totally coloration because it used a two-color processing system. The cartoon — which was concerning the character of Flip the Frog — was created by Ub Iwerks, an early Disney animator who labored with Walt for 10 years. He left the studio in 1930 over varied inventive variations. Fiddlesticks additionally contains a mouse that appears quite a bit like Mortimer Mouse, and it is speculated that it is as a result of it is really an early design of Mickey Mouse, whom Iwerks helped refine the design of.6. Legendary Looney Tunes animator and director Bob Campett helped create the very first Mickey Mouse dolls. In 1930, a 16-year-old Bob was requested by his aunt, Charlotte Clark, who was a seamstress, if he may assist her give you some drawings to assist make a sample for a Mickey Mouse doll. Unable to seek out reference photos of Mickey, Bob went to a neighborhood movie show in Glendale, California, the place he drew sketches whereas watching Mickey Mouse shorts. Utilizing his sketches, he and Charlotte then created the traditional Thirties Mickey Mouse doll.7. The traditional Mickey Mouse ear hats that you could purchase at Disney Parks all over the world have been initially created for The Mickey Mouse Membership in 1955. The design of the hat was impressed by the 1929 animated quick Karnival Child.8. It wasn’t till 1986 that Disneyland started being open twelve months a 12 months. Previous to that it was closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.9. Initially, Sleeping Magnificence Fortress was meant to be Snow White Fortress (which is why its design relies on Germany’s Neuschwanstein Fortress). The identify was modified to advertise the upcoming film, which, on the time was in manufacturing when the park opened.10. Sleeping Magnificence ended up being a main disappointment on the field workplace. Nevertheless, it was in a position to really recoup its value and grow to be a profitable film, however solely after it was theatrically re-released three extra instances (in 1970, 1979, and 1986).11. Marc Davis, who did the important thing animation for Cruella de Vil, primarily based the character partially on actress Tallulah Bankhead.12. Cruella pays homage to Tallulah Bankhead being the inspiration for the character in a scene early within the movie the place Cruella robs the lodge room. Within the scene, the film enjoying on the TV within the room is Alfred Hitchcock’s Lifeboat, which starred Tallulah.14. Tim Curry was into account to play Choose Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit; nevertheless, his audition efficiency was so “terrifying” that producers handed on him.15. Robin Williams improvised a number of his traces because the Genie and gave Disney over 30 hours of voice recordings. Whereas there are sufficient recordings to make a fourth Aladdin film, they cannot ‘trigger Robin has a clause in his will that forbids them from utilizing it (and it has nothing to do with Disney, FTR).16. The Legend of Sleepy Hole was initially alleged to be a full-length film, however on the time — within the late ’40s — the studio did not have the price range for it.17. Disney really has a historical past of getting its princess movies saving it in a method or one other — like Cinderella, which really financially rescued the studio after it turned an enormous hit in 1950.18. Walt Disney virtually made a sequel to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs known as Snow White Returns. It might have been a featurette as an alternative of a full-length film, and the plot would have revolved across the Seven Dwarfs getting the cottage prepared for a go to from Snow White.19. In 2005, a direct-to-video, computer-animated prequel movie to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was put into manufacturing. The prequel was titled The Seven Dwarfs and was led by director Mike Disa and screenwriter Evan Spiliotopoulos — who each knew the fame of Disney animated sequel movies being unoriginal and never nice — and wished to make one thing very completely different. Based on Mike, he stated it could be “Disney’s reply to The Lord of the Rings.” Nevertheless, in 2006, when John Lasseter turned the Chief Artistic Officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios, he canceled the film, together with all different direct-to-video films nonetheless in improvement.20. Walt Disney re-released Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1944 as a result of the studio was cash-strapped due to WWII. The re-release was an enormous success, and it began the custom of Disney re-releasing its movies into theaters each 7–10 years. This is able to finish within the ’90s after Disney determined to launch the wildly profitable The Little Mermaid onto VHS. Being the first Disney film to be launched on house video following its theatrical run was thought-about an enormous gamble for the corporate.21. The Little Mermaid was launched onto house video six months after its launch and, in fact, went on to grow to be an enormous vendor. However, many at Disney didn’t need it to be launched onto house video as it could minimize into the established theatrical re-release mannequin. The success of it led Disney within the Nineties to shift to the house video mannequin, not solely releasing its new films on house video but additionally its “vault” films.22. Although Disney very a lot resisted placing its animated films onto VHS, in 1985, Pinocchio turned the first traditional Disney animated film to get launched onto house video, and so they charged a premium for it, pricing it at $79.95 (which might be round $238.94 in at present’s cash).23. Hocus Pocus was initially a brief story that the movie’s producer David Kirschner submitted to Muppet Journal within the early ’80s, which relies on a bedtime story he instructed his youngsters.24. Treasure Planet is definitely the most costly 2D animated film ever made, costing as much as $140 million to make. Like Tangled, the film had been years in improvement (first pitched in 1985), however it additionally brought on a lot debate inside the studio about what the route of the film must be. Although a cult traditional at present, the film bombed on the field workplace and is cited as the rationale Disney moved away from 2D animated films.25. A number of years earlier than she would seem in Disney’s Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews partially impressed the design of Anita in 101 Dalmatians. On the time of the 101 Dalmatians manufacturing, Julie was most well-known for enjoying Eliza Doolittle on Broadway in My Truthful Woman.26. Based on British author Brian Sibley, who had befriended Mary Poppins writer P.L. Travers throughout the Eighties, there may’ve been a Mary Poppins sequel. Someday, she talked about that Disney had reached out once more to ask about one other movie and that she was going to say no, to which Brian replied that it was a disgrace there hadn’t been a sequel. To his shock, P.L. stated she would comply with it provided that she had management and if he wrote it.27. The Black Cauldron is Disney’s most notorious manufacturing and a low level that almost killed the animation division. Nevertheless, the movie — which was in improvement since 1973 — was doomed practically from the beginning. In 1979, legendary animator Don Bluth, whose staff had been engaged on The Black Cauldron, left Disney, taking 14 key animators with him to start out his personal animation manufacturing firm. This left Disney’s already small animation division short-staffed and impacted the movie’s manufacturing, inflicting points with the story’s route and animation high quality, finally leading to a disjointed movie.28. The long-lasting boulder-rolling scene in Raiders of the Misplaced Ark is an homage to a really comparable factor that occurred within the 1954 Scrooge McDuck comedian, “The Seven Cities of Cibola.”29. In a kind of full-circle second, the Raiders emblem would go on to encourage the DuckTales one:30. The DuckTales theme tune is among the catchiest Disney songs of all time (and among the finest theme songs ever, IMO). The tune was written by songwriter Mark Mueller, who stated he wrote the tune in about 45 minutes and that the one instruction Disney gave him was that they wished a pop radio tune not a “cartoon tune.” Mueller would additionally go on to jot down the theme tune for Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers.31. Should you watched the good Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers film, then you realize the villain of it was a grown-up Peter Pan. Nevertheless, in line with the movie’s director, Akiva Schaffer, in addition they had a model that they “performed with” the place the villain was a grown-up Charlie Brown.32. Ugly Sonic’s look within the Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers film was arguably one of the best cameo. Nevertheless, Ugly Sonic was not alleged to be within the film; initially, the character on the expo that Dale talks with was alleged to be Jar Jar Binks.33. In The Lion King, Mufasa was initially not supposed to look once more after his loss of life. The spirit scene was added as a result of producers felt that Simba wanted to see his father once more. This was additionally the final scene created for the film.34. Andreas Deja — who was the supervising animator for Gaston in Magnificence the Beast — took inspiration for the design of the character from Brom Bones, who was Ichabod Crane’s nemesis in The Legend of Sleepy Hole.35. And lastly, the ultimate ballroom dance scene in Magnificence and the Beast reuses the animation from the ultimate dance scene in Sleeping Magnificence. However opposite to well-liked perception, it wasn’t carried out to save cash — it was really carried out to save time.

35 Disney Info You May Not Know

There’s a actual Disney Vault — it is in Glendale, California. It is a constructing that homes the whole lot from the movies themselves to the sketches and fashions used to make them, in addition to many different issues from the corporate’s 100-plus 12 months historical past.

Mickey and Minnie Mouse share the very same birthday — Nov. 18, 1928 — as they each appeared in Steamboat Willie collectively:

However, Steamboat Willie is NOT technically the primary cartoon Mickey and Minnie appeared in. It was really Aircraft Loopy.

Previous to 1988, Minnie Mouse solely starred in a single cartoon by herself: 1942’s Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Hearth, which was a WWII coaching video about rationing.

The primary sound cartoon in coloration is 1930’s Fiddlesticks — although it is not totally coloration because it used a two-color processing system. The cartoon — which was concerning the character of Flip the Frog — was created by Ub Iwerks, an early Disney animator who labored with Walt for 10 years. He left the studio in 1930 over varied inventive variations. Fiddlesticks additionally contains a mouse that appears quite a bit like Mortimer Mouse, and it is speculated that it is as a result of it is really an early design of Mickey Mouse, whom Iwerks helped refine the design of.

Legendary Looney Tunes animator and director Bob Campett helped create the very first Mickey Mouse dolls. In 1930, a 16-year-old Bob was requested by his aunt, Charlotte Clark, who was a seamstress, if he may assist her give you some drawings to assist make a sample for a Mickey Mouse doll. Unable to seek out reference photos of Mickey, Bob went to a neighborhood movie show in Glendale, California, the place he drew sketches whereas watching Mickey Mouse shorts. Utilizing his sketches, he and Charlotte then created the traditional Thirties Mickey Mouse doll.

The traditional Mickey Mouse ear hats that you could purchase at Disney Parks all over the world have been initially created for The Mickey Mouse Membership in 1955. The design of the hat was impressed by the 1929 animated quick Karnival Child.

It wasn’t till 1986 that Disneyland started being open twelve months a 12 months. Previous to that it was closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.

Initially, Sleeping Magnificence Fortress was meant to be Snow White Fortress (which is why its design relies on Germany’s Neuschwanstein Fortress). The identify was modified to advertise the upcoming film, which, on the time was in manufacturing when the park opened.

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Sleeping Magnificence ended up being a main disappointment on the field workplace. Nevertheless, it was in a position to really recoup its value and grow to be a profitable film, however solely after it was theatrically re-released three extra instances (in 1970, 1979, and 1986).

11.

Marc Davis, who did the important thing animation for Cruella de Vil, primarily based the character partially on actress Tallulah Bankhead.

12.

Cruella pays homage to Tallulah Bankhead being the inspiration for the character in a scene early within the movie the place Cruella robs the lodge room. Within the scene, the film enjoying on the TV within the room is Alfred Hitchcock’s Lifeboat, which starred Tallulah.

14.

Tim Curry was into account to play Choose Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit; nevertheless, his audition efficiency was so “terrifying” that producers handed on him.

15.

Robin Williams improvised a number of his traces because the Genie and gave Disney over 30 hours of voice recordings. Whereas there are sufficient recordings to make a fourth Aladdin film, they cannot ‘trigger Robin has a clause in his will that forbids them from utilizing it (and it has nothing to do with Disney, FTR).

16.

The Legend of Sleepy Hole was initially alleged to be a full-length film, however on the time — within the late ’40s — the studio did not have the price range for it.

17.

Disney really has a historical past of getting its princess movies saving it in a method or one other — like Cinderella, which really financially rescued the studio after it turned an enormous hit in 1950.

18.

Walt Disney virtually made a sequel to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs known as Snow White Returns. It might have been a featurette as an alternative of a full-length film, and the plot would have revolved across the Seven Dwarfs getting the cottage prepared for a go to from Snow White.

19.

In 2005, a direct-to-video, computer-animated prequel movie to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was put into manufacturing. The prequel was titled The Seven Dwarfs and was led by director Mike Disa and screenwriter Evan Spiliotopoulos — who each knew the fame of Disney animated sequel movies being unoriginal and never nice — and wished to make one thing very completely different. Based on Mike, he stated it could be “Disney’s reply to The Lord of the Rings.” Nevertheless, in 2006, when John Lasseter turned the Chief Artistic Officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios, he canceled the film, together with all different direct-to-video films nonetheless in improvement.

20.

Walt Disney re-released Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1944 as a result of the studio was cash-strapped due to WWII. The re-release was an enormous success, and it began the custom of Disney re-releasing its movies into theaters each 7–10 years. This is able to finish within the ’90s after Disney determined to launch the wildly profitable The Little Mermaid onto VHS. Being the first Disney film to be launched on house video following its theatrical run was thought-about an enormous gamble for the corporate.

21.

The Little Mermaid was launched onto house video six months after its launch and, in fact, went on to grow to be an enormous vendor. However, many at Disney didn’t need it to be launched onto house video as it could minimize into the established theatrical re-release mannequin. The success of it led Disney within the Nineties to shift to the house video mannequin, not solely releasing its new films on house video but additionally its “vault” films.

22.

Although Disney very a lot resisted placing its animated films onto VHS, in 1985, Pinocchio turned the first traditional Disney animated film to get launched onto house video, and so they charged a premium for it, pricing it at $79.95 (which might be round $238.94 in at present’s cash).

23.

Hocus Pocus was initially a brief story that the movie’s producer David Kirschner submitted to Muppet Journal within the early ’80s, which relies on a bedtime story he instructed his youngsters.

24.

Treasure Planet is definitely the most costly 2D animated film ever made, costing as much as $140 million to make. Like Tangled, the film had been years in improvement (first pitched in 1985), however it additionally brought on a lot debate inside the studio about what the route of the film must be. Although a cult traditional at present, the film bombed on the field workplace and is cited as the rationale Disney moved away from 2D animated films.

25.

A number of years earlier than she would seem in Disney’s Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews partially impressed the design of Anita in 101 Dalmatians. On the time of the 101 Dalmatians manufacturing, Julie was most well-known for enjoying Eliza Doolittle on Broadway in My Truthful Woman.

26.

Based on British author Brian Sibley, who had befriended Mary Poppins writer P.L. Travers throughout the Eighties, there may’ve been a Mary Poppins sequel. Someday, she talked about that Disney had reached out once more to ask about one other movie and that she was going to say no, to which Brian replied that it was a disgrace there hadn’t been a sequel. To his shock, P.L. stated she would comply with it provided that she had management and if he wrote it.

27.

The Black Cauldron is Disney’s most notorious manufacturing and a low level that almost killed the animation division. Nevertheless, the movie — which was in improvement since 1973 — was doomed practically from the beginning. In 1979, legendary animator Don Bluth, whose staff had been engaged on The Black Cauldron, left Disney, taking 14 key animators with him to start out his personal animation manufacturing firm. This left Disney’s already small animation division short-staffed and impacted the movie’s manufacturing, inflicting points with the story’s route and animation high quality, finally leading to a disjointed movie.

28.

The long-lasting boulder-rolling scene in Raiders of the Misplaced Ark is an homage to a really comparable factor that occurred within the 1954 Scrooge McDuck comedian, “The Seven Cities of Cibola.”

29.

In a kind of full-circle second, the Raiders emblem would go on to encourage the DuckTales one:

30.

The DuckTales theme tune is among the catchiest Disney songs of all time (and among the finest theme songs ever, IMO). The tune was written by songwriter Mark Mueller, who stated he wrote the tune in about 45 minutes and that the one instruction Disney gave him was that they wished a pop radio tune not a “cartoon tune.” Mueller would additionally go on to jot down the theme tune for Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers.

31.

Should you watched the good Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers film, then you realize the villain of it was a grown-up Peter Pan. Nevertheless, in line with the movie’s director, Akiva Schaffer, in addition they had a model that they “performed with” the place the villain was a grown-up Charlie Brown.

32.

Ugly Sonic’s look within the Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers film was arguably one of the best cameo. Nevertheless, Ugly Sonic was not alleged to be within the film; initially, the character on the expo that Dale talks with was alleged to be Jar Jar Binks.

33.

In The Lion King, Mufasa was initially not supposed to look once more after his loss of life. The spirit scene was added as a result of producers felt that Simba wanted to see his father once more. This was additionally the final scene created for the film.

34.

Andreas Deja — who was the supervising animator for Gaston in Magnificence the Beast — took inspiration for the design of the character from Brom Bones, who was Ichabod Crane’s nemesis in The Legend of Sleepy Hole.

35.

And lastly, the ultimate ballroom dance scene in Magnificence and the Beast reuses the animation from the ultimate dance scene in Sleeping Magnificence. However opposite to well-liked perception, it wasn’t carried out to save cash — it was really carried out to save time.